Lost ski areaColoradoFront RangeRocky Mountains
Homewood Park
A ski jumping and tow hill on Denver Mountain Parks land in Deer Creek Canyon, run by the Eriksen family from Norway from the 1920s.
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Homewood Park lay off South Deer Creek Canyon Road on Denver Mountain Parks land, southwest of Denver. The Eriksen family from Norway ran it.1,2,3
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Lost near Homewood Park
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- 1938–1977 · 0.7 mi away · ColoradoA small foothills ski area off Deer Creek Canyon Road in Jefferson County that began as Watson's Ski Hill and ran as Fun Valley from the mid-1960s.
- 1940–1942 · 3.7 mi away · ColoradoA one-rope-tow ski hill on Mount Legault, now part of Meyer Ranch Park near Conifer, that ran from about 1940 until wartime gas rationing in 1942.
- 1972–1984 · 11 mi away · ColoradoA small night-skiing area beside Interstate 70 near Genesee, owned by Arapahoe Basin founder Larry Jump, that ran from 1972 to 1984.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
Homewood Park lay off South Deer Creek Canyon Road on Denver Mountain Parks land, southwest of Denver. The Eriksen family from Norway ran it. By Colorado Ski History's account they settled there in 1918 and began offering skiing two years later, though the same page lists the area's operation from 1928.1,2,3
The family kept two ski jumps; the ski-jump archive dates the larger to 1927. That year Homewood Park held the first of its yearly Nordic tournaments under the Western Amateur Ski Association, a series that lasted until World War II. Visitors could also skate on a privately owned lake, and a 1929 proposal by Denver residents to base a professional hockey team there came to nothing. In 1942 a sled tow was put in on the area's one slope, which dropped 400 feet. Colorado Ski History lists operation into the 1960s.1,2,3
Timeline
- 1918Eriksen family from Norway settles at Homewood Park1,2
- 1927First annual Nordic tournament; the larger jump dates from this year2,3
- 1929Denver residents propose a professional hockey team there; it never forms1
- 1942Sled tow installed to carry skiers uphill1
- c. 1960Skiing ends sometime in the 1960s1
Sources for this history (3)
- 1Colorado Ski History · Homewood Park Ski Area
- 2skisprungschanzen.com · Homewood Park
- 3Colorado Ski History · Colorado Ski History Timeline 1920 - 1929
Photos
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Memories
What skiers remember of Homewood Park, in their own words.
Facts
Location
39.5420° N · 105.2018° W · Colorado · Front Range
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
not yet collected
Closed for good; the year it closed is not yet collected. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 3all 3, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain